Take a guided tour of Everest’s devastated base camp (VIDEO)
Rescuers carried a sherpa injured by an avalanche that flattened parts of Everest Base Camp on April 25.
LIMA, Peru — New footage continues to emerge of the devastation wrought by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people in Nepal last month.
The latest is this GoPro video of Mount Everest base camp the day after the disaster. It triggered an avalanche that killed at least 19 people at the camp, 17,600 feet above sea level, on the slopes of the world’s highest peak.
The footage was taken by Peruvian mountaineer Richard Hidalgo. He was trekking to the camp before attempting to climb Mount Lhotse, which is next to Everest, when the tragedy struck.
If not for a delayed connecting flight out of Lima at the start of his journey to Nepal, Hidalgo would have already been at the camp at the time of the avalanche.
In these two videos, he is given a guided tour of some of the devastation by his friend, Canadian climber Gabriel Filippi.
At one point in the first clip, as they walk past crushed tents and climbing gear strewn along a steep slope, Filippi mentions how “three sherpas died in my hands.”
He also briefly references how he helped rescue two more from the deadly Khumbu Icefall, the massive, constantly shifting glacier above the base camp.
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